EIGHT PRINTS FROM OCTAVIEN DALVIMART'S THE COSTUME OF TURKEY

NINE PRINTS FROM OCTAVIEN DALVIMART'S THE COSTUME OF TURKEY

LONDON, ENGLAND, 1802

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NINE PRINTS FROM OCTAVIEN DALVIMART'S THE COSTUME OF TURKEY
LONDON, ENGLAND, 1802
Eight stipple-engraved plates by Dadley after Dalvimart, each numbered and with a separate leaf describing the subject in French, depicting "un introducteur", "un officier subalterne des janissaires", "une femme turque de Pera", "porte épée du Grand Seigneur", "A Turk in a pelisse", "un page du Grand Seigneur", "une sultane, ou kaddin", "capidji bachi", "un derwisch", each individually mounted
Each 13 5/8 x 10 1/8in. (34.8 x 25.7cm.) (9)

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Please note that this lot comprises nine prints and not eight as printed in the catalogue.

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Lot Essay

According to the preface of The Costume of Turkey, Dalvimart travelled in Turkey in about 1798 and made drawings on the spot. He was certainly in Athens in 1797, but little else is known of his life and works.

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